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ghsa-2rfq-4jx8-3hp9

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:38

Modified

2022-05-13 01:38

Severity ?

6.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

The access_pmu_evcntr function in arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.11 allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and host OS crash) by accessing the Performance Monitors Cycle Count Register (PMCCNTR).

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CVE-2017-12168 (GCVE-0-2017-12168)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-09-20 08:00

Modified

2024-08-05 18:28

Severity ?

CWE

CWE-617 - assert failure

Summary

The access_pmu_evcntr function in arch/arm64/kvm/sys_regs.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.11 allows privileged KVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and host OS crash) by accessing the Performance Monitors Cycle Count Register (PMCCNTR).

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9e3f7a29694049edd728e2400ab57ad7553e5aa9	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.11	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9e3f7a29694049edd728e2400ab57ad7553e5aa9	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1492984	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	Linux kernel before 4.9	Version: Linux kernel before 4.9

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